Friday, October 16, 2009

Open Access Archives: Griffith Institute

The Griffith Institute is a part of the University of Oxford and is situated in the new Sackler Library in St John Street in Oxford, close to the Ashmolean Museum. It was created as the result of a bequest by F. Ll. Griffith (1862-1934), the first Professor of Egyptology at Oxford, in 1937 in order to provide 'a permanent home ... for the study of the ancient languages and antiquities of the Near East'. Its original, now demolished, building was opened in 1939 (http://griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/gri/1.html). The Institute moved into its new home in the Sackler Library in 2001.

GRIFFITH INSTITUTE MISCELLANEOUSItems which cannot be incorporated into other series. Includes photographs of Egyptologists, photographs taken during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun (other than CARTER MSS.), etc.Catalogue.

GURNEY, Oliver Robert (1911-2001)Correspondence and notes on related topics. Non-Egyptological.

HARDEN, Donald Benjamin (1901-1995)Transcripts of diaries kept during his stay as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow at the University of Michigan 1926-8, and albums of photographs taken during trips to Italy, Tunisia and Egypt 1923-9.

PETRIE, (Sir) William Matthew Flinders (1853-1942)Two notebooks, "journals" consisting of letters sent home from Petrie's excavations, and eight albums of photographs taken in Egypt and Italian museums. Notes and copies made at Gîza, Saqqâra, Dahshûr, etc., are among the papers of SAYCE, A. H.Scans and transcripts of "journals" for 1880-1 and 1881-2.

PORTER, Bertha (1852-1941)Copies of some stelae in the British Museum.

REMELÉ, Ph. (1844-1883)Twenty-one photographs of the temples at el-Khârga and el-Dâkhla, taken in 1873-4.

SIMPSON, James Parker (1841-1897)Some 50 photographs taken in Egypt in 1888. Copyright Simon B. Simpson OBE.For a note about the Simpson photograph on the website of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East, by Jaromir Malek, click here and then on Notes & Queries.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.